Articles about Community

  • The (new) PrestaShop Test Framework

    And how we're continually improving the quality of the PrestaShop project

    For a few months, quality has been a priority for PrestaShop: the QA team and I are proud to announce that we’re making great steps in improving the overall quality of the core project. Automatizing tests is a big part of this process: let’s see what we’re doing, why, and how! Note: this article is focused on the Core only, but that is just a small part of what the QA team is working on. More to come in a future article!

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  • Introduction to the fuzzy search

    When the community implements the Levenshtein algorithm

    It is always great to see contributions from our community merged, it reminds the power of working on an open-source project. Especially when there are great features at stake, like the fuzzy search.

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  • Open Question: What about not committing generated files anymore?

    Let’s talk assets, we want your opinion!

    This post is the first of a new kind. We decided to open up more with you about technical questioning and decisions for the PrestaShop project. This one is about generated asset files.

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  • Contributor interview: Tantely Rabevohitra

    Discover the faces behind the commits

    An open source community is more than just PR made by faceless strangers. In order to better understand the people who contribute time and skills to the PrestaShop project, we’re writing a series of interviews with contributors of all ranges. This week, meet Tantely Rabevohitra, one of our great translators!

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  • What happens to pull requests after they are submitted

    Discover what happens behind scenes during code review

    The PrestaShop project currently (September 2019) has 389 pull requests open and new Pull Requests are opened almost everyday. All of these pull requests go through a thorough process which aims to provide a stable, consistent and reliable software that we all know under the name PrestaShop. Here is this process in details.

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  • Contributor interview: Rodrigo Laurindo

    Discover the faces behind the commits

    An Open Source community is more than just PR made by faceless strangers. In order to better understand the people who contribute time and skills to the PrestaShop project, we’re launching a series of interviews with contributors of all ranges. This week, meet Rodrigo Laurindo, one of our great translators on Crowdin and best developers on GitHub!

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  • Contributor interview: Kristaps Kruzmanis

    Discover the faces behind the commits

    An Open Source community is more than just PR made by faceless strangers. In order to better understand the people who contribute time and skills to the PrestaShop project, we’re launching a series of interviews with contributors of all ranges. This week, meet Kristaps Kruzmanis, one of our great translators!

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  • Native modules and smart menu

    A bit of historical background and the refactoring plan

    As an open source project, PrestaShop is continuously being enriched by the company teams, external contributors, developers, etc. Thanks to all the community, it keeps growing in the right direction. The PrestaShop Team is proud and honored to read everybody’s feedback, ideas, translations and pull requests, it helps improving the PrestaShop project and making it better for everyone!

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  • We are moving Issues to GitHub

    A big move from the good old Forge in order to have everything in one place for everyone.

    Next week, we will enable issues on PrestaShop project’s GitHub repository. This is going to be the new way to report bugs and to open feature requests. This way, the roadmap, issues, pull requests and source code will all be in the same platform.

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  • Feel like contributing?

    Sit back and relax, we guide you

    Summer is here (for most of you) and you have finally the spare time you need to involve where you want to? Excellent! Here is our guide to help you picture where to contribute depending on your skills… and will. ;-)

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